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Woman Collapses While Protesting Against Her Sack By Cross River Govt

Woman Collapses While Protesting Against Sack By C/River Govt

September 22, 2020 3:12 pm

A woman collapsed on Tuesday, September 22 in Calabar while protesting against her sack by the Cross River State Government.

Before her sack, the woman was a member of the staff of the ministry of health.

Mid 2019, Governor Ben Ayade had directed the delisting of about 2,500 names from the payroll of the Cross River State government, claiming that most of those employed between 2014 till then did not follow due process.

The sacked workers on Monday blocked access to the state secretariat in protest over what they described as ‘unfair and illegal delisting from the state payroll.’

The …

300 Power Bikers Storm 2019 Calabar Carnival

December 28, 2019 11:39 am

About 300 hundred motorcycle riders from 32 countries from different continents of the world have participated in the 2019 Biker’s festival.

Flagging off the bikers parade festival at the millennium park popularly referred to as eleven, eleven round along Murtala Mohammed Highway Calabar on Friday, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State urged the people to expect something spectacular from the usual bikers parade.

The parade which also feature hundreds parade of porsche cars and power bikes along the carnival route, had the bikers led by Governor Ben Ayade and the former Governor of the state Governor Donald Duke and

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FG Committed To Completion Of Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene Road

FG Committed To Completion Of Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene Road

October 19, 2019 10:03 am

The Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to the construction and completion of Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene road spanning Akwa Ibom and Cross River.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Ita Enang, renewed the commitment while fielding questions from newsmen on the deplorable state of the road on Saturday in Uyo.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Federal Government in 2018, mobilised contractors, Julius Berger Construction Company to site to commence the construction of Calabar- Itu dual carriageway.

Enang urged the people to remain calm, assuring that the contractor, …

Soyinka, others protest as DSS moves Sowore to Abuja

Calabar: DSS nabs 59 for commercial sex, minors, men

May 4, 2019 10:50 am

No fewer than 59 commercial sex workers which included 43 girls and 16 men have been arrested by the Department of State Security (DSS) in Calabar.

Mr Ilupeju Adebayo, Director of DSS in Cross River, who briefed newsmen on Saturday in Calabar, said the girls were rounded up at 2:15 a.m Saturday morning at Peace Garden Hotel and Papsi Place along Murtala Mohammed highway.

Adebayo revealed that there was a cartel responsible for luring the girls and making them swear oaths of secrecy not to abscond or divulge information about the business.

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